Yixin Xu Pratt GAUD Portfolio

YX PRATT GAUD 2015-2018

Architecture Portfolio Yixin Xu (Eileen)

This design for an elementary school takes advantage of the site’s strategic location along the busiest strip of East River waterfront and its historic function of a pier to envision a project that embraces the educational opportunites of the river, expanding the boundaries of an otherwise anchored school.

01 GAUD Studio SP2016

Elementary School Design Critic: Theoharris David Site: Pier 14, NY

wooden pier base

streamlined ‘mothership’ hull

morphology diagram

1 sailing boat (montly excursions)

window ‘sails’

6 water taxis (daily transportation)

kinetic components

roof

2F

1F

plans

the water taxi holds 30 students + 2 supervisors

sections

deck activities room kitchen

the sailing ship has a maximum capacity of 120

section & elevation

in clear weather

when under precipitation

detail section

Through investigating the impacts of the forces of water and temperature fluctuations on a chunk of ice, an animated digital space of force and motion is produced, in which a simulated vectors give form to a multiplicity of surfaces. The surfaces invade an existing high-rise office building and impose porosity in social context.

02 GAUD Studio FA2015 Spatial Event Investigation Critic: Philip Parker Site: 345 Park Ave, NY

sediments water volatile equilibrium stable safe

animating

dynamics frame 91 80 frame 124 80 frame 274 80 frame 520 80 rame 609 80 frame 714 80

patching

stalactites-mite

erosions

excavating

surface quality stacking folding gaping

architecturalizations platforms enclosures ventilation passages

an event of forces

erosion, reformation & architecturalization

plans

before

sections

after

integrated plan

This urban housing project employs the ‘bed-sitting’ concept favorable to young, free spirited new arrivals of a community, of which there are many in Williamsburg.

Through a morphology of folding geometry and an interplay of clusters, the possibility of mixed-use and mixed-user housing is expanded.

03 GAUD Studio FA2016 Urban Housing Design Critic: Jonas Coersmeier Site: Williamsburg, NY

one cluster

cluster analysis

cluster arrayed

bed-sitting apartments

family duplex

housing distribution based on Williamsburg demographics

site summer sunlight study

site winter sunlight study

complex analysis

bed-sitters are never segregated from duplexes due to the inherent circulaton property of the cluster

sightviewing escalator

aerial arts training

vertical courtyard height of 80’ is determined through sunlight studies ensuring that the courtyard receives full sunlight at a moment of winter solstice, and is mostly shaded mid-summer

family duplexes have direct access to courtyard

80’

section & elevations

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circulation diagram

1F unit plan (duplex)

3F unit plan (bed-sitters)

close-ups

vignettes

This concert hall design adapts itself to the traits of New Orleans’ French Quarters by studying its special climate conditions, its tradition of architectural embroideries, and the importance of voids in the event of musical gatherings. Intended to be an agglomeration of musicians with an emphasis on grand theatrical effects, the architecture disperses its volumes only to bring the music itself down as a centerpiece.

06 GAUD Studio SP2017 Concert Hall Design Critic: Kutan Ayata Site: New Orleans, LA

auditorium process

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ground plan

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1 ENTRANCE 2 FOYER 3 SHOP 4 AUDITORIUM ENTRANCE 5 EXHIBITION SPACE 6 PRACTICE ROOM FOYER 7 BREAK AREA SHOP8 PRACTICE ROOM 9 ADMINISTRATION AUDITORIUM 10 OFFICE EXHIBITION SPACE 11 MACHINE ROOM

PRACTICE ROOM BREAK AREA PRACTICE ROOM ADMINISTRATION OFFICE MACHINE ROOM

plan & elevations

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First Floor S = 1' : 16"

sections

WATER FLOW

WIND DIRECTION

WATER FLOW

environmental & mechanical systems

DUCTWORKS

AHU

VAV

ELECTRICAL SERVICE ROOM

FIRE PUMP ROOM

INCOMING WATER ROOM

INCOMING DATA ROOM

METAL PANEL

STEEL TRUSS CCONCRETE WALL

CONCRETE SLAB

STEEL REINFORCEMENT RING CONCRETE STRUCTURAL RIB

STEEL COLUMN

structural system